"I'll leave. But you should know that Ichimaru is lying to..." Hinamori found her words interupted and a rather livid Rangiku turning with a look of murder in her eyes.

"Leave!" The woman snapped the command out again and the small female hurried out of the room, her eyes watering from the sting of having the woman lecture her.

After she got a bit away she found herself wiping tears from her eyes. "Rangiku doesn't understand. That man is only going to hurt Shiro-chan with those lies he's telling him."

She walked along with her arms wrapped around her chest until she got to her division. She tried speaking about it to someone at her division only to find that the members would try and move away whenever she mentioned the man. Thus her ranting and raving wasn't quelled by the time she got to the woman's society. The first person she saw was Rukia reading a book at one of the tables.

"I can't believe Ichimaru Gin!"

Rukia glanced up at that point, frowning as she did so. "Hinamori... I really don't want to talk about that man. He rather makes me uncomfortable."

"But he's tricking Shiro-chan in such a cruel manner!"

"What do you mean by this?" The small female set down her book.

"He told Shiro-chan that he's his biological father."

The small noble felt her eyes suddenly widen from shock. "Ichimaru Gin is Hitsugaya Taicho's father?"

"No! He lied to Shiro-chan and now Shiro-chan believes that he is his father."

"They are a lot alike."

"They are not!"

"Fine. What do you want me to do about this?"

"You could talk to your captain and get him to set things straight. Ukitake's always been really good about convincing Toshiro about things."

"Tell our taicho about what?" The two females glanced up to see Isane and Kiyone coming through the door.

"Ichimaru Gin's being mean to Shiro-chan!"

"Ahh..." Isane found herself shaking her head at the female.

"Hinamori thinks that Ichimaru Gin is lying to Hitsugaya Taicho about being his father."

"That would explain the weird conversation I overhead yesterday. I only heard snatches of it." Kiyone placed a hand on her chin.

"You mean to tell me that Ukitake Taicho's already tried convincing him and failed?"

"About that..." Isane tried speaking up again.

"Who did Ukitake Taicho try to convince of what?" Soifon came into the room and frowned.

"Apparently Hitsugaya Taicho is convinced that Ichimaru Gin is his father." Kiyone blurted out.

"What the fuck?" The small female went and sat down. "I'm guessing Ichimaru Gin did something to convince him? I knew the man was a psychological bastard, but really... this really takes the cake."

"Yes... but..." The tallest female found herself drowned out.

"I mean, I heard that Hitsugaya Taicho has been ill, but I didn't realize that Ichimaru was using it to his advantage to convince him of something like him being his father."

"You've heard?" Nanao came through the door. "How?"

"Ichimaru lied to Shiro-chan and now..."

"Stop right there." The female pushed up her glasses. "Why are you all assuming that Ichimaru Gin lied?"

The eighth division fukutaicho watched as everyone turned to look at Momo. Soifon however turned to her. "Come on Nanao. Matsumoto Rangiku would have known if she had a kid. Unless of course your implying that Gin had a child without her knowing."

"There is such thing as amnesia." Isane twiddled her thumbs. "Unohana, myself and the head captain have known since before the start of December that this was true."

"It can't be. There isn't any proof." Momo found herself trembling.

"There is. I've seen it." Nanao turned to look at the small female.

"So... boobies and smiles sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First comes love, the comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage!"

"When did Yachiru get here?" Soifon frowned at the small female.

Rukia shook her head. "And now the whole thing is going to spread like wildfire because she knows."

Kiyone frowned. "Isn't it reversed though. First came the baby, then comes marriage and then love. Wait... does this mean that they had a kid despite not loving each other?"

"I..."

"What's going on?" Rangiku came into the room.

Nanao let out a deep sigh. "When did Hinamori find out about your family situation?"

"This morning. I need to talk to you privately about what you did this morning Hinamori."

"I don't see why you can't talk to me right here. I didn't do anything wrong."

The temperature in the room suddenly increased as Rangiku's reiatsu flared out and Nanao placed a hand on her arm to calm her down. Isane let out a deep sigh. "Well, we now know where Hitsugaya Taicho gets his ability to adjust the temperature in the room from."

"Like mother, like son." Kiyone laughed.

"The situation isn't funny." Soifon folded her arms across her chest. "I'd take up Rangiku's offer of talking privately. She's obviously upset with you about something and you might not want us to know what you did."

"But I didn't do anything wrong. How was I to tell that Shiro-chan told me the truth. And how do you actually know there is truth. There is no proof."

"I've seen it. Rangiku's seen it as well as Hitsugaya Taicho." Nanao folded her arms.

"And this has nothing to do with you not believing taicho when he told you. This has to do with that you told him right before he told you that. What you said was down right cruel."

"I'm not sure what you're talking about..."

"What kind of proof?" Rukia piped up.

"Gin apparently took pictures of taicho when he was an infant and a toddler. There are pictures of him in Soul Society with Gin and his grandmother." Rangiku piped up.

Kiyone's fists suddenly went to her chest. "Baby pictures of Hitsugaya Taicho! I have to see those."

"They can't be as cute as lady Yourichi."

"And you very well know what I'm talking about Hinamori." When the woman saw that the girl just looked at the ground. "Taicho asked you what you thought a child of Ichimaru Gin's would be like and you told him that child would be ten times the monster Gin was."

"Yay! Aniki's a monster like Ken-chan!" Yachiru suddenly piped up with a huge smile on her face.

"Well... Hitsugaya Taicho is ten times the monster that Ichimaru Gin is..."

"Kiyone..." Isane shook her head at her younger sister.

"...but he's not the kind of monster you're afraid is under your bed at night. He's that cute little fluffy monster that's just... cute but annoying at the same time."

"Oh dear..." Nanao frowned.

"I'm sorry I said that." Momo glanced at the ground.

"Except that hasn't been the only problem. You've been down right cruel to him every time you showed up at the office this month. So, until you get your act together..." Rangiku glared at the female. "... I don't want you anywhere near him."

"But Shiro-chan and I grew up with each other."

"You haven't treated him like family ever since he entered the academy and graduated the same year as you did. Sure, you saw him as your little brother, but the truth of the matter is you haven't once payed attention to his feelings on anything. And it may very well have started before he joined the academy. I want you to think about that."

Momo glanced at the ground, before slipping out of the room. Rukia then crossed her arms. "When Hinamori came in and told me about Ichimaru being Hitsugaya's tousan I thought about how similar they are. Except... I don't get the feeling of being chocked by a snake when I am around him."

Isane sighed. "No wonder he's a child prodigy like he is. On top of having a child prodigy for a father both of his parents have a high level of reiatsu that in some manner effects the person."

Nanao turned to look at a now empty chair that had a bowl of crumbs in front of it. "Did anyone see when the chairwoman left?"